Ryzen server board, finally

[Rifter]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-x470d4u-motherboard-specs-amd-am4,38707.html

Looks like the first real ryzen server/workstation board has been released.

Would love to see more USB ports but other than that this thing looks pretty solid.

 

[crashtech]

Interesting, though I think it would have to be full ATX, have better x16 slot spacing, and probably onboard sound for that matter for me to consider it a viable workstation board.

It does seem to be a nice little entry level server board though with 8 SATA ports.

 

[Rifter]

Interesting, though I think it would have to be full ATX, have better x16 slot spacing, and probably onboard sound for that matter for me to consider it a viable workstation board.

It does seem to be a nice little entry level server board though with 8 SATA ports.

You cant really utilize full ATX size/slots anyways with ryzen, only 24 lanes, and this board has 2 full lenght 16x slots and a 8x so its already using all ryzen has to offer lane wise.

 

[crashtech]

Well running GPUs at x8 does not impede performance much iirc, it's just that the slot spacing is not really adequate for two big GPUs , just thinking from the perspective of heavy compute loads. Then again anyone who envisions building for two GPUs may usually be aiming above Ryzen as the CPU anyway, although, is there not some speculation that Zen 2 may eventually offer over 8 cores on the desktop?

 

[EXCellR8]

...It does seem to be a nice little entry level server board though with 8 SATA ports.

Entry level sounds about right, because wouldn't it make more sense to use an EPYC or Ripper chip in a HEDT/workstation?

 

[crashtech]

Entry level sounds about right, because wouldn't it make more sense to use an EPYC or Ripper chip in a HEDT/workstation?

Yes, I am questioning the marketing of this board for workstation, it's mainly for file servers afaict.

 

[EXCellR8]

Perfect for file server or higher end streaming media server.